Pricing Question...

[Thinkpatience]

So someone approached me and had asked to create a T-Shirt Design for his Clothing company he is starting up. He gave me a drawing that he had did, then I messed around with it - gave it some flare and turned it into something for his first shirt. He now wants to hire me as a freelance designer for his t-shirt company.

My problem is that I don't know what to charge him. I was thinking of 2 different ways to go about this:

1 - Charge him a certain percentage of the profit of his shirts, so for example - If he orders 20 shirts for $225, sells them for $20/each - I get 20-30% of $175 - and so forth with every bulk order there-after of that design. Is that overcharging him? Being greedy?

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2 - Just charge him a flat rate for the design. I have no idea what this flat rate should be though. I was thinking maybe $50? I know I'm loosing out BIG this way, but is that the normal way to go about this?

We're kind of partners in this, but I haven't made any commitments yet. He pays for everything (Website, shirts, and Ads), then comes to me with a design idea - I throw it all together.

I'm still new to this, a 2nd year graphic design major in College...

[Chung Dha]

Mainly freelance they pay you some amount per design. I've got 150euro per housestyle and 175 for a webtemplate. while i hear a classemate sell web templates for 3000, but i think he lies. Even i wouldn't pay that much. Also seen his webs all same awfull simple amateur template you see around the web.

House style is cheaper cause less coding and testing. And take less time to make than a website. How ever the company i freelance for is just a middle man. They get the job from a other company and buy my design and sell it. So probably if there wasn't middle man i would got more for it.

Other way is to make up a contract to pay per hour. But mainly only do contract if you work at there office so they can check the time. And can still work when ever you want, how ever you can't take a break and play games there.

Work at there office help learn stuff also you are then working with legal version of all software. Can't say but not everyone got legal software at home.

[rinaldidesigns]

option one....but if it his concept (you said he gave you a sketch) this is where it gets tricky, your role less defined....
OR sell the design, and all rights, for alot more $$$....what price was initially discussed for the first design? That is where I get my base, per design....
good luck